OBJECTIVE: To project the efficacy and economic consequence of short-term intranasal gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist (GnRH-a) for diagnosis of and therapy for endometriosis. STUDY DESIGN: Multicenter, placebo-controlled clinical tri…
OBJECTIVE: Our goal was to determine the effects of a repeated course of the gonadotropin-releasing hormone agonist nafarelin on symptoms and signs of endometriosis and lumbar and distal radius bone mineral density. STUDY DESIGN: Forty-fiv…
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the efficacy of the GnRH agonist (GnRH-a) nafarelin compared with placebo administered for 6 months after reductive laparoscopic surgery for symptomatic endometriosis. DESIGN: Randomized, prospective, placebo-control…
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) expression of interleukin-1 (IL-1) type I receptor in the endometrial tissue of normal patients during the menstrual cycle. DESIGN: Prospective longitudinal study. SETTING: D…
Pelvic pain associated with the menses may be a result of physiologic problems, premenstrual tension syndrome, primary dysmenorrhea or secondary dysmenorrhea. All of these conditions may be caused by both physiologic and psychologic factors…